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Noteworthy Ottoman Turkish Collection Online

Duke University Libraries: Ottoman Texts on IADuke offers a collection of 213 Ottoman Turkish books on the Internet Archive platform. This collection includes not only classical literature but also works of popular fiction, translations of foreign works, dictionaries, religion, and law.

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On the Internet

The Islamic Studies Centre in Üsküdar offers three online collections of Ottoman printed materials in facsimile images:1) Salnâmeler: the official yearbooks, important sources of statistical and other information on all the Ottoman provinces. Over 520 are available here; 2) Osmanlıca Risaleler: over 2400 pamphlets or “treatises” in Ottoman Turkish, mainly on political, religious and educational subjects; 3) Osmanlıca Makaleler: articles from 20 Ottoman Turkish periodicals. The facsimiles are provided as PDF files.

This database of Ottoman newspapers and periodicals is maintained by the Turkish National Library in Ankara. It contains full-text images of a wide range of serials from 1840 (Ceride-i Havadis) to 1928.